Mission and Public Affairs Staff Team

Malcolm Brown
is Director of the Mission and Public Affairs Division, responsible
for ensuring that all MPA's work takes forward the Archbishops'
Council's strategic vision. Within the team, Malcolm carries
specific responsibility for work on economic issues as well as
contributing, where necessary, to other areas of the Division's
portfolio. Malcolm has been ordained for over 30 years and has
worked as a parish priest and as an industrial missioner, as
Director of a theological think-tank and as Principal of a regional
ministerial training course. Before ordination, he worked for the
Missions to Seamen. He has published widely on topics in Christian
ethics including, a textbook, Tensions in Christian Ethics (SPCK,
2010) and has edited Anglican Social Theology (CHP,
2014).

Jack Palmer is part of the policy adviser
team, working as the part-time Marriage & Family Life Adviser
to the Church of England. He combines this role with
responsibilities as the Archbishop of Canterbury's Parliamentary
Assistant, a role he has held since 2012. He has previously worked
for NGOs in the UK and the United States, and is currently studying
for an MSc in Religion in the Contemporary World at the London
School of Economics.

Charles Reed is
part of the policy adviser team for the Church of England, taking a
lead on foreign policy
issues. Before joining the NCI's Charles worked as a policy analyst
for Burson Marteller in London and the European Commission in
Brussels. His blog, Ethical Comment, provides
regular updates and insights into world affairs.

Tom
Sefton is part of the policy adviser team for the Church
of England, taking a lead on the Church's national action on, and
responses to, public policy on economics and social affairs.
Previously, Tom was a Research Fellow at the London School of
Economics' Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion and then
Research & Policy Manager at Church Urban Fund. He has also
worked as an Economics Adviser for various government
departments.

Martin Kettle is part of the policy adviser
team for the Church of England, taking a lead on home affairs and
criminal justice issues, and supporting work in dioceses. He
advises bishops on legislation in the House of Lords as well as
working with other agencies on issues such as prisons and
probation, policing, drugs and alcohol and other areas of social
policy including equalities. Before joining the staff of the
Archbishops' Council, Martin worked in the Prisons Inspectorate,
after doing a number of jobs in prisons; he also once taught ethics
in a theological college, and spent a number of years as a parish
priest.

Elizabeth Henry is part of the policy
adviser team for the Church of England taking a lead on race and
equality issues. She is National Adviser for the Committee for
Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns (CMEAC). Elizabeth has worked on
tackling inequalities in International, National and regional
settings. Before taking up her current post she was Chief
Executive Officer of Race on the Agenda (ROTA), a social policy and
action research charity that focuses on race equality and issues
affecting Britain's Black Asian and Minority Ethnic
communities.

Jill Hopkinson
is National Rural Officer for the Church of England based at the
Arthur Rank Centre (the churches' rural resources unit) in
Warwickshire. She is responsible for advice on policy on rural communities, food,
agriculture and some aspects of environmental issues. She advises
bishops on legislation in the House of Lords as well as resourcing
mission in rural parishes and supporting a network of dioceasan
Rural Officers. Before the NCIs Jill specialised in rural community
development work, was a technical manager for the Farming and
Wildlife Advisory Group and a research scientist.

Richard
Chapman is the Church of England's Secretary for Parliamentary
Affairs, heading the Parliamentary Unit at Church
House. The Unit is the lead office for liaison with MPs and Peers
and provides support to the 26 bishops that sit in the House of
Lords, as well as the Second Church Estates Commissioner (Tony
Baldry MP). From 2005-2008 Richard was a public affairs adviser to
the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace. Prior to that he
spent eight years working in parliament, first as an aide to a
backbench MP, then latterly to a cabinet minister.

Simon Stanley
is Deputy Parliamentary Advisor to the Church of England and
assistant to the Second Church Estates Commissioner supporting his
work in the House of Commons. Before joining the NCI's Simon
worked for a number of politicians in Westminster and Brussels.
Simon assists Richard Chapman in supporting the work of the Lords
Spiritual.

David Shreeve
is the Environmental Consultant
to the Archbishops' Council of the Church of England. There
are many environmental aspects to the day-to-day operations of the
Church ranging from the energy use in buildings to the biodiversity
of its churchyards. David is part of the team which organises
Shrinking the Footprint, the Church of England's national
environment campaign. In addition the Church is concerned with a
number of national and international environmental issues and it is
involved in a number of ways in governmental and NGO
activities.
In 2003 David was awarded a Lambeth Degree in recognition of his
influence in the Church's understanding of environmental
issues.

Anne Richards
is part of the policy adviser team for the Church of England taking
a lead on the theology of mission and on issues to do with the
Church of England's engagement with New Religious
Movements (NRMs) and alternative spiritualities (AS). She is
the convener of the ecumenical Mission Theology Advisory Group
(MTAG) which looks particularly at matters of Spirituality,
Theology, Reconciliation, Evangelism and Mission in our society
today. She is a prolific writer and lecturer on how to engage
people outside Christian faith, on rural mission, on children and
theology and on a wide range of gospel and culture matters. She is
the Church of England's Observer on the governing body of INFORM
(Information Network Focus on Religious Movements) at the London
School of Economics.

Rachel Jordan is the
National Adviser for Mission and Evangelism for the Church of
England. In her role she works across many departments in the
National Church encouraging everything to be shaped by mission and
evangelism. One of the joys of her role is leading the Mission
network; this network includes Diocesan Missioners and many others
with a calling for mission and evangelism in the Church of England.
She partners with the mission agencies and works alongside the
Fresh Expressions team, Church Mission Society, Church Army and
HOPE. She has a PhD in church history and has worked amongst
prostitutes and drug addicts in Amsterdam's red light district.
Rachel's home is the base of a missional community that regularly
meets in her living room, a gathering of young adults who come
together to create and deliver social justice projects. Some are
followers of Jesus, others are on a journey towards him and some
are not sure of what they believe or who they are following. This
keeps her grounded in the realities of mission and evangelism.

Brendan McCarthy is part of the policy adviser
team for the Church of England, taking a lead on issues associated
with medical
ethics and health and social care policy and supporting work in
dioceses. Previously Brendan had been a Church of Ireland rector
and hospital chaplain and then chief executive of a cross-community
Christian charity in Northern Ireland. He has also
been an adviser to the Parades Commission of Northern Ireland,
a part-time tutor with the London School of Theology and a
non-executive director of the Western Health and Social Services
Trust(NI).

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